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Yo la Tengo (night 2)

Yo la Tengo

Jayhawks

At a Strand of Oaks show last weekend, Pat Finnerty (who now plays guitar for Strand of Oaks and also does the “Why This Song Stinks” podcast) opened the show for SoA by playing random covers that the audience or he wanted to hear. Patrick saw a guy in the audience who really did look a lot like Jeff and said “hey Tweedy guy, here’s one for you” (or something like that) and then they played Outtasite.

Andrew Bird

Strand of Oaks

American Aquarium

Aaron Lee Tasjen

Califone (again); living room show this time but still full band. Should be interesting.

Beth Orton

Well shit - I’m going to that one too.

Califone

How was it? I have an off night in Chicago between Califone shows next week, and she's playing. I haven't listened to her much, but her new record sounds a little ... sleepy? Wondering how she is live. Vince

Good read - thanks for posting. I have no answers, but I'm pretty optimistic it'll sort itself out without imploding. Covid changed everything. I don't think we know how (collectively) to reset long term yet. Work, school, live music... all of it.

Squirrel Nut Zippers

Subdued for sure for Ambulance. Barely a chuckle for the priest joke. Personally it's my least favorite Wilco/Jeff song ever. I actually hate that one. Seemed like he wanted to play a few of the CC songs that they didn't play on tour (as well as quite a few that were on the regular Wilco setlist lately). Singalongs were basically nonexistent. He tried to get the group going on Cali Stars ("You can sing a long if you know it... I'll sing the harmony so don't sing my part") but it went pretty flat. Zilch on anything else, and no clapping for Hummingbird (although Jeff did do hi

"Is the whiskey starting to kick in? Does whiskey work like that? This is Kentucky - Do they just give you shots on the way in? Oh, it's bourbon here? Sorry." It was just that kind of a show - very much unexpectedly, at least for me, as this was a pure Jeff solo show, in an historic movie theater here in MY (usually calm and reserved) CITY of Lexington KY. But the rowdies were very much in rowdy form this evening, and it did make for a lively evening indeed. The Kentucky Theater is celebrating its 100th anniversary this month, and apparently they enticed Jeff to do a one-off

Jeff Tweedy! In my very own town!!

Apparently this is as close as we're gonna get this tour.... alas.

It's an open house at the Loft..... which is really a "help us unload the truck day". HEY MARK, ORDER MORE DONUTS!!!! But it's still a secret so don't tell nobody, ok?

Nikki Lane!

This really surprises me. I’m no fan of Bezos (although I think our household has contributed at least a couple of valves in the booster rocket), but forty bucks and free shipping is tough to pass up. Mine arrives today.

Thanks. It was a little surreal as we were leaving. Lots of folks on the public beach filling sandbags. Lotta plywood going up. Lines at gas stations, and then later along the drive most gas stations were already out of gas. then today as we’re driving up I95 through GA and SC we are seeing tons of the electrical bucket trucks heading south. We counted for a while and it averaged one every 30 seconds. The area we were at is getting hit pretty hard. Lotta water coming in.

Dana and I had just started our weeklong vacation on Sanibel Island on Saturday... Sunday was fabulous as was Monday morning!! Today (Tuesday) AM they declared mandatory evacuation so we skedaddled up to St. Augustine - will overnight here (and then Asheville tomorrow) on our way on back to Kentucky. Sigh...

“Canadian Former Obnoxious Twenty-One Year Old Confirms Vince is Right Again’l Achievement unlocked!! Cheers, eh?